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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Krowbar who wrote (30972)	2/16/1999 6:35:00 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

<<I don't see many people using reason. Humans mostly respond to stimuli like Pavlov's dogs and think that they are making free, reasoning choices.>> Obviously I pretty much agree with you, as you can see in what I originally wrote: This is yer basic visceral issue, I think, in which one's viscera produce the 'opinion', and one's brain produces the line of reasoning that leads to the 'opinion.' I think most issues are like that. Politicians take expert advantage of the Pavlovian response, in my opinion, when they feed the quite reasonably alarmed and angry electorate executions instead of reasoned policy that would keep their families safer. But hey, that's just imo. Still, even though we're imperfect calculators, there are some arenas in which we tend to behave more rationally than in others -- if 'rational' is defined as in our actual best interest.